I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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